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Show g e e X P I AR T efi Grenera i s ---a e LT P ] ‘\, N -'g»u';. The Beggers here are generally not onl bold, but troublefome sfor they as with great importunity, yea, and oftentime threaten {uch as refufe to give them they arefor the moft part very ill featured an mil-fhapen Creatures, for not og of a hu dred, but is mangled or deformed i fome part of his body 5 whereof th Natives give this reafon, that thefe Lazar take their Children in their Infancy and break their Arms, and Legs, or deform hem in fome other part of their bodies, that fo they may grow up in a mil-fhape form, on purpole to become fit t be bred up in their way of Begging. Befide the e enforced deformities, they ar oftentimes full of Running Sores, that the very fi ht of them is enough to breed lothing in the moft fetled ftomack: And all t is mifery is done and fuffercd b them on purpofe, to ftir up a Commiferation in fi ch as pafs by. Some there ar that appear outwardly found of body, but thefe ufe a other Art in Begging,whic 15, to knock their heads together like diftraced perfons fo that SpeGators woul believe their Brains were ready to flye cut, or the felves fall Dead upon th ground; for {uch is cheir cuftomary humour, that hey never ceafe beating, til they have prevailed with you, to beftow {omething u on them knecking thejr heads, as aforefaid, ftrike cheir foreheads o hard upon a round ftone tour Fingers thick, which Iyes upen the ground, th makes the Earth feem t rebound with the blows ; by means whereof fome « them ave contra&ed fuc terrible {wellings upon their F oreheads, that they caii ever be cured of them In the Yellow River a certain Armorer fhewed himfelf t us coming aboar our Bark, from a {mall Chinefe Boat called Tfiap m, which is an open Boat, flat be. fore, and with a little Maft in the midd This Armorer (whom we here vepre{ent in the annexe Pri | amongftth s Privities, and flavereii no otherwif ft)far quite naked, only a cloth covere uenas a Man poflefled with the Devil and to make himf{e]f appear che more Dreadful, h had run a fharp Dart throug one o his Cheeks, which made him look witha Countenan e full of Terror. H carried likewile two (harp Darts in his hands, herewith he threatned either t wound or kill himfelf, if men givehimnothing Next to him fat one of the Coun trey Priefts, who had a Book in his hand wherein he faid, ever's perfon that gav ©mething was to write his name ; but the Embaffadour refufed foto do. Ther wei |